“Sunlight”

Formerly a dance move boasting at least one apocryphal (and sadistic) genesis account, Harlem Shakes is also a Brooklyn rock band. No such ambiguity about these guys' origins: Just survey New York's more accessible indie of the past decade. The Strokes? It's in there. DFA & associates? It's in there. Vampire Weekend? Band of bros, according to the bongo-beating preppies. But it's Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's tone-challenged yelps, slithery keys, and relentless rhythms that seem to have a tooth-and-nail grip on Harlem Shakes' forthcoming Technicolor Health LP.

Don't know about you, but a CYHSY-sound revival seems to me a tad premature-- unless it's CYHSY doing the reviving. And yet these flagrant thieves, er, pastiche artists, with the cringetastic opening salvo, "I had a coat of many colors/ Sold it off online," produce in "Sunlight" something that their awkwardly named forebears haven't in some time: a galloping, good-time anthem that draws, in its scant three minutes, an awesome dramatic arc of build and release. Fun to dance to, obvs.